The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.